☌ Conjunction

Sun conjunction Mercury

You are your thinking. Associated with people whose sense of self is bound to being articulate or being right, and who take disagreement personally more than they would admit.

Angle
0°
Orb used
±6°
Type
Fusion
Bodies
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What these two are about together

Identity and the way you think. These two are never far apart in reality, so the tradition reads this pair as how closely somebody identifies with their own mind and opinions.

What a conjunction does

A conjunction is the tightest relationship in a chart: two planets sitting at effectively the same point in the zodiac, rising, setting and moving together. The tradition does not read it as good or bad on its own. It reads it as fusion. Whatever the two planets each govern stops being two separate concerns and starts being one, and it is often the placement a person is least able to see in themselves, because there is no distance from which to look at it.

How it reads

You are your thinking. Associated with people whose sense of self is bound to being articulate or being right, and who take disagreement personally more than they would admit.

In practice

Strongest of the five, and the most dependent on which two bodies are involved. A conjunction of two comfortable planets is usually experienced as a natural talent; a conjunction of two difficult ones is usually experienced as a single unavoidable subject that keeps coming round.

What to watch for

The absence of separation. Whatever these two do, they do at once, which makes it hard to tell which of the two is driving.

The two planets

Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming

Mercury: Mind, language and how you process

Famous charts with sun conjunction mercury

2,622 of the 13,000 documented charts on this site have it. The 24 best known are below. Every one is computed from that figure’s own birth data, with the source of the birth time stated on their page.

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Sun and Mercury at other angles

Sun and Mercury also have a midpoint: the halfway point between them, read as a third place in the chart rather than as an angle between two.

Find this in your own chart

A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Sun and Mercury actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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